Re: Why still using Apple II?

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

> Sadly, I think this is all the change is about, ie Windows OS. I wonder
> how much 'compensation' MS will pay Apple for this change? IMHO, MS is
> beginning to worry about the OSS movement which is causing them market
> shares globally.

I don't think that Windows will run natively on future x86-Macs (maybe
via emulation) and I surely don't expect OSX to run on standard PCs.

The first isn't really needed, as the Mac community (apart from the
people who really buy them to get some work done) is "proud to be
different". Well, now they're a little bit less different, but still...

On the other hand OSX on cheap PCs will be Apple's death. Its as simple
as that - Apple has to sell hardware to exist with its current business
model and they won't when John Smith can buy a cheap PC and only needs
to buy (in the most optimistic case) the OS from Apple.

And who could forget the drama with the Mac clones who ripped Mac sales
apart until Apple didn't prolong the licenses for MacOS?

The situation will be imho quite comparable to Palms and PocketPCs in
the future.

The higher end Palm models use a hardware which is very similar to the
one used in PocketPCs and is based on the XScale-CPU, too.
Astonishingly PocketPC-maker Asus even manufactures some of these
Palm-models...


> The Intel cpu has already proven itself as durable. I have never had a
> cpu fail from heat although I have had other Intel chip sets die.

Starting at the Pentium 3 Intel integrated a heat diode and a mechanism
on the die which slows or halts the processor in case of overheating -
regardless of the features of the motherboard. AMD, though leading in
other areas, didn't include such a mechanism until today (to the best
of my knowledge).

bye
Marcus